On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 08:54:15AM +0200, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 06:34:41PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It's also possible to run multiple FTP servers, each listening on a > > different port, but all the packaged ftp daemons "Conflicts: > > ftp-server".
> That is bad, IMO. (and chance to raise my opinion about virtual > packages ;) ) > Conflicts tag is used overmuch. Sometimes I want to have more than one > ftp-server or mail-transport-agent installed but Conflicts tag does not > allow that. I know that inexperienced user or admin have benefit from > Conflicts (and some other tags) and virtual packages but experienced > ones have problem with them. m-t-a's must conflict because they are required by policy to provide a sendmail program at a fixed filesystem location. While it's possible that port conflicts were part of the original rationale for m-t-a conflicts, this has definitely not been adhered to consistently in Debian for other services, and I think there are enough use cases for installing more than one daemon providing the same service that we /should not/ attempt to apply such a rule for virtual packages. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]